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bpf, doc: add note for libbpf's stand-alone build

Given this came up couple of times, add a note to libbpf's readme
about the semi-automated mirror for a stand-alone build which is
officially managed by BPF folks. While at it, also explicitly state
the libbpf license in the readme file.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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Daniel Borkmann and committed by
Alexei Starovoitov
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tools/lib/bpf/README.rst
··· 132 132 Format of version script and ways to handle ABI changes, including 133 133 incompatible ones, described in details in [1]. 134 134 135 + Stand-alone build 136 + ================= 137 + 138 + Under https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf there is a (semi-)automated 139 + mirror of the mainline's version of libbpf for a stand-alone build. 140 + 141 + However, all changes to libbpf's code base must be upstreamed through 142 + the mainline kernel tree. 143 + 144 + License 145 + ======= 146 + 147 + libbpf is dual-licensed under LGPL 2.1 and BSD 2-Clause. 148 + 135 149 Links 136 150 ===== 137 151